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In message , Mark Brader
writes It's Bethnal Green. Since that happened after the OED's first edition was published, you won't find it in there. I have the Supplement that was completed in 1986, and whose content has been incorporated into the second edition OED and the newer online version (third edition in progress). This includes, at the end of "tube", a subsidiary entry for "tube shelter". And the second illustrative quotation, from a contemporary entry in a diary published years later*, reads "There was a terrible accident at a tube shelter last night after the sirens had sounded in London." The date is given, so it's clear what's meant. * "Mrs. Milburn's Diaries: An Englishwoman's day-to-day reflections, 1939-45", published in 1979. What is the OED's first illustrative reference to "tube shelter"? The expression was in use long before the Bethnal Green disaster. -- Paul Terry |
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